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Shop Beers Live- "Speedweek Review" · Pushin' the Cushion

• Slim Pushins: What's up everybody? Welcome to Pushin' Cushion Garage Beers. As always, my co-host with sleep in his eyes, Corby Sherb. What'd you just get done doing? Why are you breathing hard? Corby Scherb: working out. I got home a little later than normal and you know everyone knows it's six to seven is the workout time and I gotta shorten that stroke on podcast nights. Slim Pushins: Well, and then we got out of focus Jim over there. Jim Gardner: I'm in focus. Slim Pushins: Tuning all the dials. Corby Scherb: What's going on over there, Jim? Slim Pushins: It was touch and go. People don't know what happens before we go live. Jim kicked us out twice. We couldn't hear him. We thought it was gonna be a great show without Jim. But here we are. Corby Scherb: It was actually really good 'cause his his video was there but he was muted, so Jim Gardner: And I could hear you, which is the worst. Corby Scherb: Even better. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: I just couldn't say anything. Alright, well... Yeah. ⁓ Slim Pushins: That's the best. I wish can you do that to Corby? Corby Scherb: Soon. ⁓ man, we had ⁓ a whole lot of sitting around watching it rain. For ⁓ what sh yeah, one night. Jim Gardner: Speed night. Speed week turning the speed weekends turning the speed night. ⁓ Slim Pushins: It's a whole week. Hey, we're live. Corby Scherb: There was there was a lot there's a lot to talk about just one night though. ⁓ there was a lot of different things that happened and went on and Jim Gardner: What is this? Slim Pushins: We are live. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Did you think we weren't live? Corby Scherb: ⁓ congratulations. Congratulations. Slim Pushins: We have one we have one I think I'm the one person that's on right now. Jim Gardner: Good. Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah, there was ⁓ some good heat races. well I I liked their man, I hate just like calling people out like this, but ⁓ their program and their system of, you know, the four heat races with two B mains I think was absolutely ideal. ⁓ that's the best way to try to ⁓ the same as ⁓ you know, locking in what they what they locked in twelve cars, right, out of the heat races. ⁓ and that's the way to do it, especially off passing points. Jim Gardner: Yeah, a lot went down. Slim Pushins: Do it. Jim Gardner: ⁓ yeah. Corby Scherb: ⁓ you get a bad draw. I know that, ⁓ I'll say it now, you know, Ryder LePlant got a bad draw and then he kinda got pinched up in his heat race and you know, it is what it is. That's the luck of the draw. Jim Gardner: How did they, did they invert any or did they redraw? Do we know straight up? So. Corby Scherb: No, it was straight up passing points, from what I understood. Yep. Yep. Same, you know, Braxton won his heat race from pole and then when he lined up sixth in the feature, so that it was straight up passing points. Dev Devin Diebrick, what, he went like six to two or something like that, and he moved up quite a few rows, what he started second row inside, I think. So Jim Gardner: Yeah, B6 in points. OK. Slim Pushins: Pro record. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah, the format was fine. Slim Pushins: For the record, this is a ⁓ this is a mid this is a mid show conversation. Y did y'all not read your run sheets? Corby Scherb: Sorry. Jim Gardner: No, we didn't. Yeah. I told, yeah, I told Kerbo we'd need to just do race review and then. Corby Scherb: Did I get one? Slim Pushins: No, you didn't. Jim Gardner: and then move into more in depth talk, try to keep it more segmented. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Move into opinions. Corby Scherb: ⁓ it was a good race. Well, it was yeah, it was a good race. I mean any any race where Kevin Raimi's involved is always gonna be good. He's so old and he's so smart when it comes to that stuff, you know, and Carson's still really young and learning and ⁓ that was one of those ones that'll hurt him for a while. But I thought it was good, you know, ⁓ they they did a good job with the racetrack for what we had. Slim Pushins: So old. Jim Gardner: So I didn't see, ⁓ so. Ramy wins Carson Bolden second, Justin Zimmerman was third. Kyle Jones had another. Yeah. Well, he's going to Knoxville this weekend for USAC. So, ⁓ Kyle Jones had another big charge to run fourth and Cody price rounded out the top five, ⁓ 36 cars in attendance. And most of them were locals. Gamola was there. ⁓ Danny Smith was there. ⁓ but that was really the longest tow. Corby Scherb: He's a wing guy now. I know, I know. Jim Gardner: think were just those two guys. No, no, he ended up not coming. So. Slim Pushins: Thomas Johnson, did he come? Corby Scherb: I I think mm mm. Slim Pushins: Man, that's gonna that's gonna really shake up the absolutely completely worthless, ⁓ slim power ranking Super Bowl chart series rankings. Corby Scherb: Christopher Townsend. Jim Gardner: Yeah, that's right. Well, it was already, you know, thrown in scrambles because Kevin Ramey jumped about 42 spots with his win. ⁓ he was busting, busting my balls via text about the, about the power. Yeah. I think I could win. think I could win a race and still be in the 30th, ⁓ really good healthy car count. Slim Pushins: Maybe you need to take notes. Corby Scherb: Yeah, right. Jim Gardner: ⁓ Some new guys who I think it was their first time out this year were up to 96 cars in the power rankings that we're tracking in Texas. So it's definitely very healthy. ⁓ And I thought it was a good show. The crowd was really good. You know, we look up in for the heat race, that place was packed. ⁓ And the track. ⁓ Slim Pushins: When it w Yeah, it was. Jim Gardner: For getting as much rain as they did, you know, I'm sure they didn't really want to cut the track up and prep it too much. It had a lot of moisture kind of underneath it, but it was really hard. Started taking rubber there in the bees. I'm glad they took some time to, ⁓ work on the track a little bit before that main event. So it just wasn't a disaster. I didn't see. ⁓ Okay. Slim Pushins: Well hold on, hold on. I have some questions about that. You you used the term work on the track. There a track there wasn't a tractor that entered the track. So here here's the question. Corby Scherb: Here we go. Slim Pushins: They washed it down with under the premise that they were gonna wash off the rubber. I don't feel like that that's a thing, but I leave it to you guys who have actually steered a race car. Jim Gardner: I'm not a farmer or track prep guy. ⁓ I'm not going to tell them how to do their job because I don't know. But ⁓ I didn't. So I. It could cool it off, ⁓ maybe, maybe you get some rubber to run off there if it's not really dug in. Typically, you have to have to till it up a little bit to get some water in there, but you could just. Slim Pushins: I mean, do y'all in your opinion, do you think wetting it down washes off the rubber? Jim Gardner: be trying to cool it down and give it some time for maybe the moisture to come back as it gets colder in the night. mean, you could do a bunch of stuff. I left right after the checkered flag fell. I didn't see any tire wear from the main event to see if it was taking rubber or how bad it chewed up the tires. ⁓ Slim Pushins: You didn't do any race saver scientific experiments or anything? Jim Gardner: No, I didn't. was, ⁓ I was not on, ⁓ my contract hasn't started yet for that. Yes. Go for it. Slim Pushins: I figured Corby Scherb: Do I get to sound a little bit smart right now? Slim Pushins: Who, you? Good luck. Well I start now. Corby Scherb: Yeah. So it it starts taking rubber of what's that? Slim Pushins: Watch start now. Corby Scherb: ⁓ it starts taking rubber, the track just gets abrasive. It gets dry, it gets hard, and ⁓ everyone runs the exact same line and ⁓ our tires are really soft. Doesn't take a whole lot to start peeling the rubber off of ⁓ And ⁓ the the idea behind washing it off is like what Jimmy said, on the just cooling it off and you can make it wet enough to make it slimy. So then it puts and then the same, they went out there and wheel packed it, they're trying to pull fresh dirt over the top of it. I mean yes, tilling it up will always do it or grading off the top of it will always take that that layer of rubber back off, but there's some racetracks that don't have all that equipment. And I think they did a really good job, at least attempting to. The biggest thing in my opinion was the rubber was taken on the top. If they can make the bottom good, at least for the first half of the feature, then not everyone just migrates to the top and then does the exact same thing. It's it's all the same concept. Slim Pushins: I I do commend them for doing something. ⁓ like I'm not faulting that was just a general question. I don't fault the Corby Scherb: ⁓ for sure. I I think like a s there was yeah, there was still incoming rain. They were trying to hustle it up and they realized after the B mains, ⁓ what ⁓ I was standing there with Zimmerman actually and Zimmerman started ⁓ counting it off how much faster they started going, and Colby Stubbill gained like seven or eight tenths in his B main. Like you know automatically it's taken rubber. There's nothing you do. And they they survived the B's and sadly, ⁓ I know there was quite a few people that jumped a couple tires in the B's. But Jim Gardner: Yep. Corby Scherb: Same thirty five sprint cars in North Texas. It was hot that day and they were still trying to beat the weather. Jim Gardner: I'm going to give them credit for, you know, we're just happy. We were happy to get a race in. And when you get as much rain as you, as we did during the week to have them not prep it, you know, it could have been a huge ruddy awful mess too. You know, if, if they tried the other way, so it was fine. They, uh, Corby Scherb: I agree. Slim Pushins: I was ⁓ I was incredibly surprised when we pulled into the pits, it was dry and sandy, which I did not expect at all. So I don't I don't have any idea what kind of rain they got. ⁓ I Jim Gardner: I remember Kara Bolton said they got four inches of rain like Tuesday or whatever. um, they live, they live right off the back stretch, I think. But, um, so anyway, they did a good job. They did the best they could. Uh, we showed up there. It was probably a little drier than they wanted to. Um, but the, the heat races were really racy around the top. Super slick. The top was there. There was plenty of passing B mains were good. And then they took the time that they needed. And we still got out of there at a decent hour. It wasn't like it was. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: one 32 o'clock in the morning. think I left at midnight, you know? So, ⁓ good job. It was, it was, it was good. I'm bummed speed week. Corby Scherb: It was good. I I don't I still I'll never understand I'll never understand the whole late start stuff. I don't that's just me. Jim Gardner: It's Friday. It's Friday. I mean, we took off work and stuff, but you got to thank, you know, fans in the stands. Yeah. So it just is what it is. ⁓ Slim Pushins: It did feel like we were look like w like we were waiting forever. Corby Scherb: I know, I know. I'm not a pr that's why I'm not a promoter. Slim Pushins: We did have some time. We sent the ⁓ we sent the the cushion gals out to do some some interviewing drivers. ⁓ I don't know if we're gonna get those videos back. It's out of our hands, it's being edited and put together. Jim Gardner: That's your domain. I do everything else here, but I'm not in charge of that. Slim Pushins: Well, I've in typical Slim Pushins fashion, I have pawned it off on somebody else, so I could be in con I could be in control, but I'm not in control. So I have seen some of the videos, they're pretty funny. ⁓ which is the idea of this whole thing. Jim Gardner: At least you admit it. Corby Scherb: Who would have guessed it? Jim Gardner: Yeah. So, yeah. All right. ⁓ that's about all we got for speed week, right? like as a general, it, it sucked. The weather sucked. killed a bunch of momentum of a really cool event. And I hope Nathan Moore and the tracks and the promoters all stick with it. And it's a good spot in the schedule. It's a good weekend. It's got a lot of momentum. Corby Scherb: I think so. I hate I ⁓ For sure. Jim Gardner: Mother Nature's out of your control, but we appreciate the tracks taking a risk and. Slim Pushins: Corby, did you Corby, did you upset the Duchess? Because she's throwing you under the bus. Corby Scherb: Where? What happened? Slim Pushins: You're not even logged in. You have no idea what's going on. You're just in the dark. Corby Scherb: No, I d I'm not on Facebook Live. What what did what did Aunt Heather say? Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: It's on the screen if you'll push I don't know, something. Jim knows how. Corby Scherb: I ch I already did. Jim Gardner: Here, I'll take care of it. Slim Pushins: There it is. No one wants to hear about racing. Jim Gardner: hahahaha ⁓ Corby Scherb: Here we go. There it is. They're all back. There's Dean Sippin'. Jim Gardner: Yeah. ⁓ Slim Pushins: The Duchess tunes in once one time, throws you under the bus, and then she's out. Jim Gardner: All right, so we've missed it the last couple of weeks. We'll have to get our buddy Big Country's ad read in here. Now I can't get to it. Crap. We're trying. Slim Pushins: We're the most unprofessional program ever. We'll just wait. Jim Gardner: ⁓ I don't know. Keep talking. Here we go. Slim Pushins: Keep talking, here we go. Jim Gardner: Keep talking. But, ⁓ yeah, there we go. Look at us go. ⁓ our buddy, big country up in Minnesota. He's got, ⁓ he's got a new project, ⁓ based in Alvarado. He's doing, ⁓ windmills and plenty of projects and stuff looking for people to work. So, ⁓ if you know anybody down there, South, South of Fort Worth, ⁓ give Kyle Buffington a text ⁓ or an email from we sent you. Slim Pushins: Cor Corby, are you using There it is. Corby Scherb: There it is. There it is. Jim Gardner: Looking for construction professionals to go all over the Midwest, paying good money per diem. Slim Pushins: Industrial energy solutions. Corby Scherb: Jor the Roops would be a good guy to to talk to about that stuff. Jim Gardner: ⁓ He's a good dude. He's a racer. ⁓ Check it out. ⁓ Big country. appreciate you being a supporter of us here on pushing the cushion and we're going to figure out how to make this a little bit better, but I do want to get into that. So now I can share something else. Our first topic of the day. Slim Pushins: Yeah, we got enough we got enough people online to get into the shit get into the shit debacle. Jim Gardner: Yep, so. So. Let's talk about this. Slim Pushins: Jordan Roop wants to know what his name is, Corby. Corby Scherb: What do you want to know about that? Jim Gardner: Ahem. ⁓ Let's talk about this picture that I got sent from Mike Frieri in the middle of... That's right. The other one's on the trailer. Anyway... Slim Pushins: Well, two out of the three of our drivers are in that picture right there. Corby Scherb: sure Raimi's thinking very kind words right now. Jim Gardner: ⁓ So we had, yeah, well, he kept the visor down. So that shows some maturity on Kevin's part. He hasn't popped it up to yell at anybody yet. ⁓ let's talk about this. Slim Pushins: Ryder LePlant claims that that's why he got his spot back, 'cause he kept his visor down. Jim Gardner: And the steering wheel in the car. ⁓ so this is a turn one, ⁓ lap one, turn one mayhem started in the second row, ⁓ down the front stretch and then all hell broke loose there. And, ⁓ Ramy stops in the infield stubble field gets spun out. ⁓ Weger has a front end knocked out. He's on the hook. He's done. ⁓ the other two start and they get their spots back. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: ⁓ which is a choice. ⁓ and let me first say, if I, if I'm working on the seven ⁓ car or the two car and you don't fight to get your spot back, ⁓ I'm probably going to chew your ass back in the trailer. When we're done with this, you're supposed to fight for everything you can. ⁓ the track, guess is following. Slim Pushins: I wanna see how politically correct Jim's gonna be explaining this. Jim Gardner: ⁓ the lucas oil dirt late model rules which is if there's a lap one caution the field is reset ⁓ which i think is probably the dumbest rule i've ever heard of in motorsports history yeah in any case there's too many conditions about it it's a dumb rule i don't think that the fan in turn or in row 12 of the stands is going to understand that rule ⁓ Corby Scherb: If you don't go to hot pit or something like that, somet there's there's like bywalls in it or Jim Gardner: I don't know why the professional dirt lamp model guys have it. It's dumb. ⁓ Slim Pushins: Well there was a there was an entire racetrack full of sprint cars that didn't understand the rule either. Corby Scherb: Well, everyone we we can we can keep knocking, you know, everything and everyone. The only reason that Kevin Raimi is sitting there like that, calm as a cucumber, because apparently he's the only one who understood that in the driver's meeting. Apparently they they had stated in the driver's meeting that if you are collected in a first lap crash and don't have to go to the work area, you will get your spot back. So Jim Gardner: Exactly. You get, which, is fine. didn't go to the driver's meeting. I'm not a driver. ⁓ so if that's the case, that's fine. That's that's paying attention and, knowing what's going on. I think it's beside the point. It's a bad rule. think it's confusing. I think if you have to explain it, it's, it's just for sprint cars, it's so easy. If you have to get push started, you're you start on the tail. How hard is that? Corby Scherb: I agree. Kevin Raimi or Dylan Raimi will probably get on here and and spot check me. I think it's even an IMCA race saver rule if you have to have a second push, you go to the tail. Even before the race starts. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Well, but that, that brings a whole nother level of questions, ⁓ that we did, you and I talked about yesterday for a little bit. ⁓ but just this rule is a bad rule. Like, you know, when, when the TSS had the slide job rule, it was a bad rule, not because of its nature or what they're trying to do. It's a bad rule because it puts Corby Scherb: Right. I agree. Slim Pushins: It was subjective. Jim Gardner: It puts the officials in an impossible lose lose situation because you can't get it right every time. And with a rule like this, it's the same thing. It's subjective and judgmental and it's just putting everybody in a bad spot for no reason. You can see who stopped on the racetrack, put them on the tail. What's the difference? Doesn't matter whose fault it was. Doesn't matter what happened. You stopped on the racetrack, go to the tail. Easy. Correct. And so I. Corby Scherb: I agree. I agree. Yes. For sure. That's racing. That's the same as drawing a pill. It's the same. Jim Gardner: I don't know where that rule came from. don't know why in God's name, ⁓ track running sprint cars in North Texas is running the same as a professional dirt late model ⁓ touring series. ⁓ Anyway, I think it's a bad rule. I'd like to see him reconsider it for the overall better understanding of everybody in the facility. Because even if you said it in the driver's meeting, all the other crew guys and buddies and wives and kids and people sitting in the stands didn't hear that, you know. Corby Scherb: I agree. I I mean you you start conflict in the in the pit area for you know, maybe maybe a couple of people did hear it, but ⁓ that it's just it's not good. I I don't think. I mean it's just it's one of those deals. Not saying that Kevin wouldn't have won, I mean Kevin was clearly the fastest car on the racetrack. Not saying that he couldn't have still done it in twenty five laps. ⁓ it's just man, it it puts if if I'm starting behind Kevin or Colby in my head I'm already upset. Jim Gardner: For no reason. Yeah, well. ⁓ yeah. Corby Scherb: If they restart and they line up in front of me, in my head I'm like, How? How is this happening? I would question everything for the rest of that race. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it's, it's just, it opens itself up to unnecessary criticism. You know, whoever, whoever's making that call is going to hear about it from somebody. And it just doesn't have to be that way. It's just trying way too hard, you know? So, ⁓ anyway, I don't like that. ⁓ nothing against Kevin or Colby. I like both of them. They're the fastest guys in town. ⁓ we were busting, we're busting Kevin's balls about it today via text. Corby Scherb: I agree. Slim Pushins: I I talked I talked to Kevin earlier and he said that's all bullshit. He got his spot back because he played paper rock scissors with one of the guys on the infield that was helping push those guys off. He won and he got to go to the he got to go to the front. Jim Gardner: Yeah, yeah, so yeah, yeah, he doesn't need any Corby Scherb: I mean he is Kevin Raimi, so Slim Pushins: Ryder, you did everything you could to go the opposite direction in the middle of that race. Jim Gardner: Kevin doesn't need to catch any breaks to be a contender to win. think if you have over a hundred sprint car wins, you should just have to start at the tail at a principal, but, ⁓ you know, give everybody else a shot. Yeah. Kevin didn't think it was a good idea. And, ⁓ you know, just to, to make a clear definitive statement, that is not the rule at RPM Speedway. Kevin would have went to the tail. So, but, Corby Scherb: No. Slim Pushins: No. He told Raimi that earlier. Raimi wasn't a fan. Corby Scherb: Right. I just I it it's it like you say, it puts a lot of people in bad spots, ⁓ just from crew people to if you're on the race track, ⁓ people in the stands I'm sure were questioning it just just Jim Gardner: ⁓ That's a port. Slim Pushins: Well, it also pitted a bunch of people against each other in the in the heat of the moment, too. There was a lot of pissed off people at Raimi and and Stubblefield, and I think even Mundy was caught up in there somehow. ⁓ and all got their spots back. Jim Gardner: Yeah. On the... Corby Scherb: Right. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Well, it's like the, the, the poor guy running the lineup shoots, got a headset on some probably just getting his ass chewed for no reason. I can't even see what happened, you know? And it's just, it's just, it puts a cloud over the race and the result. And I don't want to make a cloud. I Kevin, Kevin and Carson's race, ⁓ the last, you know, the middle 10 laps of that race was just incredible. It's why we all love Sprint car racing. ⁓ Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. ⁓ yeah. ⁓ yeah. For sure. Jim Gardner: And it just puts this dark cloud over it for no reason. It's just very simple. Just put them on the tail and say sorry about you. You'll get better luck next week. anyway. Slim Pushins: Can hey, can we talk just real quick before you take that off the screen? Can we talk real quick about the significance of that corner right there with the kid passing all those three cars? Corby Scherb: You got lucky. Slim Pushins: The the three is the Jim Gardner: We owe you 25 bucks, Corby Scherb: I ain't paying you nothing. You said you we'll call it square. Slim Pushins: Ryder said we'll call it square just because we had bragging rights. So we had a gentleman's agreement. We we had a gentleman's agreement or a gentleman's bet between the three of us. We all bet on our own driver. Whoever finishes best won twenty five bucks from the other two. Corby Scherb: We'll call it square. 'Cause cause Ryder cause Ryder got ballparked. Jim Gardner: Ha! Corby Scherb: I will say that I I think that we had the best car. I'm just gonna go ahead and throw that out there. We we had the the car to beat. So he came out of the hole like a bandit. He got he started third row outside and was running down the leaders going down the front straight away. And it was it was no fault of Devin Diebrick, but Debrick pinched him up at the wall and Debrick actually asked me at the racetrack. Jim Gardner: How do you tell you you ran 100 feet? You ran 100 feet before you crashed in the fence. You ran in a. Running down the leaders, you ran 100 feet before you. For all we know, my car was the best. Slim Pushins: I don't know. Ha ha ha. Right. That was a blazin ass hundred feet. Corby Scherb: But it it I mean, we'll we'll see this weekend in Ardmore. It's it's really simple. We had the best car. Jim Gardner: Okay. You're a piece of work. Slim Pushins: Hey hey, the kid was ripping after that. The kid was he was the only one on the top, slicing and dicing. Well yeah. It's amazing what happens when the there's a little bit less stress. Corby Scherb: Yeah, because the stress fell off his shoulders. No, Braxton drove good, man. I was happy with our first weekend together. ⁓ he ⁓ well ⁓ well I ⁓ not to just touch on the rider, rider always always fast, but Braxton I I told him what to do in the heat race and he went out there and did it exactly like I said and I'm sure he questioned many things that I did to the car before it went out and thank God that we had Wesley McNorton and ⁓ Randall L actually showed up and ⁓ helped us a bit and ⁓ Jim Gardner: Ugh. Slim Pushins: He was ripping until he got sent off the track. Corby Scherb: ⁓ it was man, it was a racing deal. It's no fault to to anyone. ⁓ he I don't think that he expected to come off turn four as fast as what he did. And there's no fault in Devin and Devin went really good. ⁓ he was trying to, you know, cap off the win that he had there last year and just ⁓ missed the mark. He was he was Devin Jim Gardner: You want to know why Devon was really good all night? He was pitted next to me. Corby Scherb: No, I thought it was Justin Zimmerman. Slim Pushins: Was it was it because the track announcer can't get his name right to save his life? Jim Gardner: No, well, he was on the other side. Well, I, I don't. Yeah. But, uh, he was rolling a tire with a very inferior product tape measure and then had to like squint to look at the numbers. And, know, I packed two, I'm packing heat one in each pocket and, sponsored dev dev sponsored Devon a 33 115 Stanley. Corby Scherb: ⁓ d the brick? Slim Pushins: Devin DeBrick drives me nuts. ⁓ here we go. Let's just talk about that for a second. Corby Scherb: Let's let's go ahead and talk about that because Wesley Wesley gave me one of those and it was in my pocket all night. Never pulled it out. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah, well, that's because Wesley probably did all the work. That's how that rolls. You subcontracted. Anyway. Slim Pushins: You walked right into that. Corby Scherb: Usually if prep if if no, it it's simple. When prep, it's the six piece. Proper preparation prevents piss poor performance. If you're prepared then you don't have to. Next question. Jim Gardner: something like that. Slim Pushins: Let's talk about let's talk about Jim's Stanley obsession real quick. So the three of us well, two out of the three of us have access to the the Push in the Cushion Facebook page. I don't think Corby's ever logged in or knows how to log in. But Corby Scherb: Obsession. It's an obsession. Slim Pushins: It's got a lot of background analytical stuff. Most of you probably know because a lot of you have racing pages and stuff. There it is. A lot of you have like racing pages and it gives you the analytics of how many people have viewed the page and all that stuff. Well, this morning I get on and it notifies me that we are a top fan badge. We have achieved a top fan badge. Now, we've achieved a few of those because we like to like a lot of y'all stuff. ⁓ we've gotten top fan badges with John Ricketts racing, Carson Bolden racing. Well, this morning we set a new precedence. Unbeknownst to me whatsoever. We are the newest top fan of Stanley. So Jim's been logging on. Jim's been logging on to the to the PTC Facebook page and evidently liking every single post. Jim Gardner: you family tools, that's right. You make one. you No, that's not true. I tagged them. I tagged them in one post and that post went viral. You know, it got tens of tens of views and. Game recognizes game. What do you want me to say? Slim Pushins: that Stanley Blackendecker makes. Ha ha ha. So you think we're on Corby Scherb: Do you like every time they post a tape measure? Jim Gardner: No, I don't. You have to. Yeah, you'll know and you'll know it too, because I'll be swagged out. But. Slim Pushins: So the next ad read that we're gonna have is gonna be Stanley. They've already reached out to the They've already reached out to the PTC ⁓ social media executive staff. Jim Gardner: Well, so to tag anything, tag a racetrack, tag a driver, tag whatever, you have to be following them. So I couldn't tag Stanley without following them. So, and yes, I'm working on my own business to business deals. All right. Corby Scherb: I'm more of a snap on guy. That's just me. That's how I was raised. Jim Gardner: Okay. Slim Pushins: Put hey, Jim, put the kids put the kids comment up there. I heard it was Corby's call to try and take out all the fast guys before lap one. Corby Scherb: No, he had the car. He had the car to do it. He just ⁓ just a racing dale man, it happens. ⁓ said, ⁓ he he got a good jump and I don't think he expected to run down the guys in front of him that quick. And we had to we had to put a pretty big gap between us and Ryder. That was ⁓ that was our only hope. Try to get away early. Jim Gardner: All right, so. Slim Pushins: A pretty good gap. We started like eighteenth. Corby Scherb: I know we had to keep the gap that way. So if we can put some more between us. Roger was busy Slim Pushins: Rip it. He was he was Corby Scherb: he was ripping, he was ripping. He always rips. Come on. That's right out of the plant. Slim Pushins: He was busy making his own lanes. Jim Gardner: ⁓ so the other question I have about the race, was it an IMCA race? Corby Scherb: Then ⁓ he got I don't know. I I don't know. I don't know if there was IMCA points involved or not. I know there was probably a lot of people there just for the IMCA points. ⁓ look, Kevin just clarified it for us that ⁓ Snap on doesn't have a stagger tape. Slim Pushins: Evidently not. Jim Gardner: Was there tech? Yeah, so Stanley is the superior. ⁓ God. ⁓ Yeah, so was it was there tech was Rick Burdick was walking around. I talked to Rick for a while, but he wasn't dressed up and I didn't even think to ask him. Corby Scherb: That's why I'll I'll just go with the Walmart brand at that point. Slim Pushins: I from what I understand Corby Scherb: I don't I will also say this I will also say this openly. ⁓ the the kid that I'm helping right now is a tiny little bitty thing and has to add a lot of weight to his car. You cannot tell people, especially in a sprint car world, there is no skills. I don't care where you're at. I am not that type of person and I would never take the weight off of the car, but you just don't do that. You're once again like you're Slim Pushins: How much? Corby Scherb: trying to make bad calls. Slim Pushins: I that's a great question, Jim. All that all I know is that the track, when the track was questioned about the c the ⁓ the decision that was made on lap number one, ⁓ they said that they are not an IMCA track. So I I have no idea what that means for one offs if it would have legitimately been part of race week. I don't know. Jim Gardner: Now, not that it really matters. ⁓ I guess if you're running for state points or whatever, matters. ⁓ The only thing I would have been worried about as a driver would have been insurance. So ⁓ I'm glad that that question is just a hypothetical. that a lot. ⁓ Corby Scherb: For sure. I don't know. I don't know if ⁓ Gary Kelly and Rick's on here right now. I saw Rick at the racetrack. ⁓ he was cruising around. Jim Gardner: But he was, he wasn't wearing his, he wasn't tech. He wasn't there in official capacity. He wasn't teching. wasn't wearing a shirt. ⁓ again, I left right after the checkers. I don't know what they did for tech. Now I was told, you know, cause, cause Greenville's got a lot of insurance regulations with four wheelers on the track and stuff like that. Like not to go on the track or in the infield after the heat races or, or, or for tech or whatever. ⁓ but anyway, that's stuff we probably need to consider. Corby Scherb: I agree. Jim Gardner: ⁓ that I didn't really think about till we got kind of involved was like hey Does this not be in a speed week race change the sanction and change insurance? ⁓ change format change rules change whatever so ⁓ anyway This stuff we should think about and it's all kind of boils back to you know, the the officiating thing in turn one this insurance thing, Of of we do need some sort of uniformity in our rules in this area. We ⁓ do need, when we had the TSS, a touring sprint car deal, ⁓ that was never an issue. We always knew tech was gonna be there. We always knew insurance was there, all that good stuff. So it was kind of bigger overarching things to think of. Slim Pushins: Well maybe maybe we need to have a push in the cushions sprint car series in the future. Jim Gardner: Well, yeah. I tell you what I'm. Corby Scherb: You'll be the tech official 'cause I'm not doing that. I could never be Rick or Wes Cranfield or any of those guys. Never. Jim Gardner: I'll tell you what the worst thing is, it's ⁓ God. Yeah, I don't want to do it. So, ⁓ but it is, it is kind of showing a void in the area with some of this stuff where we're like, Hey, how's this, how is this officiated? How is this structured and stuff like that? But anyway, I'm glad, I'm glad it wasn't a real problem that, made me think of it, but ⁓ Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. Slim Pushins: Right. I'm glad we got in one race. It was a weird the logistics of, you know, we were all in different places ready to hit the road and you know something would get rained out. And then you gotta figure out I I I know for us we had to figure out, all right, so do we book a hotel room with the hopes that RPM and Texar Cana is gonna be able to run? what does that look like? ⁓ it was just a weird Jim Gardner: ⁓ Slim Pushins: S like sequence of events, ⁓ logistically trying to figure it all out. Jim Gardner: Yeah. And that's why I hope Nathan and the promoters and everybody kind of stick with it because it's got a lot of momentum, but it was a big kick in the teeth. ⁓ you know, especially like Jacob Gamola towing from Pennsylvania. Now I know he ran Kennedy a couple of weeks ago, so he's, he's, his stuff's been here a while. ⁓ but still, you know, you know, all those guys from down south thinking they're going to get four or five nights of racing in, ⁓ you know, we'll just, we'll just hope it comes back next year. And I think when race on canceled, did. say see you next year or whatever implying that they're going to do this again. yeah. Corby Scherb: I hope so. It's a cool deal, man. It it's a it's a cool deal to to cruise. I didn't like the layout of the racetracks this year. ⁓ I thought that was a little bit back and forth across across ⁓ the Metroplex, but once again, like I'm not a promoter, so I I Slim Pushins: I think it's a great thing. A lot of zigzagging. Jim Gardner: Well... I think, I think it's an iceberg. think there's a lot more going on than what we think about or what just racers think about. mean, who can run when. Corby Scherb: Who can run like you're saying, yeah, who can run IMCA on a Friday night? They can add a day on a Sunday or like Jim Gardner: Well, it's, it's like, uh, Texarkana ran on Wednesday last year. And I, you know, I bet they got dinged at the gate, you know, not many people signing up to, to sit in the stands on a Wednesday night, maybe your travel, cause they're still working because they're not off for the weekend. So then you reward them and give them a weekend night the next year or vice versa. But then you're, you got to go all the way up there. So how do you make the rest of them work? You know, so, um, you know, if we got to. Corby Scherb: Mm. Right. Right. Jim Gardner: drive past a racetrack an extra 45 minutes just to make the whole deal work. think everybody can stomach that, you know, because the racetracks are taking a big risk ⁓ to pay a really good purse, you know, start late and try to end early. So they're running less support classes, which I'm always for. I will happily ⁓ pay more pit pest money if there's only three support classes instead of seven. ⁓ Corby Scherb: I agree. Jim Gardner: You know, so they're, they're taking a financial risk to put it on in the big scheme of things. ⁓ so, you know, we, there's little things that we probably just should be cool about like driving past Greenville three times before we race there. You know, Corby Scherb: I agree. I mean i it's it's a tough thing to you just put together five nights in a row, let alone ⁓ truly really close to the Metroplex, everything other than Tex Arcana. ⁓ and cool racetracks. Racetracks that don't have sprint cars weekly or monthly or you know, there's quite a few race racetracks on that schedule that ⁓ don't run sprint cars. Jim Gardner: Yeah, we talked about it earlier. Greenville was, ⁓ was packed, you know, probably cause I want to get sprint cars three or four times a year. ⁓ Corby Scherb: ⁓ for sure. Yeah. Slim Pushins: I think we should add Abilene. Corby Scherb: That's a hike. The opposite way of Tex Arcana. Jim Gardner: Okay, I'm glad you're not in charge Kerbo. Slim Pushins: I like cabin. Yeah. Jim Gardner: For many reasons, that would be the first one. Yeah. Slim Pushins: That that seems to be the common the common theme. also speaking of this weekend, not to ⁓ put a drag on the show, but what ⁓ incredibly sad news ⁓ that came out ⁓ about Kyle Bush. And in such ⁓ a short amount of time, like sick, he's not racing, he's passed. ⁓ what a shame. Corby Scherb: ⁓ Yeah. Slim Pushins: ⁓ I I was surprised. I was really expecting this sounds crazy this day and age with social social media, but I was really expect expecting, you know, a ⁓ press release from ⁓ Kyle Bush's you know team being like, hey, this has been put out there, it's not true. ⁓ but an impact with all of the with all the videos that were put out, tribute videos, ⁓ the start of the NASCAR race. ⁓ you never you don't think about the impact that somebody had on a sport until you're put in the position and you're forced to think about the impact that they had. Corby Scherb: I agree, man. He ⁓ he he was rowdy. He ⁓ he ⁓ made his presence known, anything that he did and ⁓ you know, I I I'm not taking anything away or that people aren't being fed the truth. You know, first off, people go to the hospital all the time and pass away. That's that's not an unheard of thing, you know. ⁓ Kyle did what I think any true racer would, whether whether or not it's true what they're saying that happened with the autopsy, ⁓ I mean he raced himself to that point. You know, he never gave up, he never quit. He asked doctors to come and see him, but he never he was never forced to do anything. It was still his choice to show up to the to the sim that night. ⁓ he he was a true right, man. He was ⁓ he was still fighting. He was still trying to become better, just like any racer. ⁓ I I have a lot of respect for that. ⁓ outside of just him as a racer, ⁓ the guy truly learned how to race dirt, you know. Slim Pushins: Yeah, I mean the guy fell out in the sim. Corby Scherb: ⁓ him and the Larsons were really close. ⁓ it's not easy trying to especially at an he wasn't an old guy, but at an older age to learn something new and he did and he did really good. ⁓ the same, you know. I mean they I know they went and raced Millbridge quite a bit. Milbridge is on right now. ⁓ he was he was one of those guys that just it wasn't that he was the center of attention ever, but he was he was gonna do it his way. And I think that's exactly how everything ended 'cause he was gonna do it his way. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: I think, um, Pig back on your point for him to pick up something so foreign to a micro racing and midget racing. Um, you know, he grew up running pavement and, being, uh, multi-time national champion, he had a lot to lose to go out to chili bowl and running the sea main on his qualifying night and being the double J main on Saturday with, with, with fortune 500 companies all over his car. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Corby Scherb: For sure. Jim Gardner: ⁓ you know, a lot of those guys, ⁓ just flat out won't put themselves in that spot to be ridiculed. ⁓ but that kind of show, and I really respected, ⁓ his willingness to go say, look, I'm going to go do this and I'm going to do it. Well, ⁓ I think was a micro champion down there in Millbridge and, ⁓ you know, it was obviously an incredible stuff and has incredible people working for them. But as a true racer to just say, I'm going to pick up this deal and do it with my kid. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: ⁓ and help learn and go through the process with him, ⁓ was something that I think really changed my mind about them. and I thought it was really cool. ⁓ you know, ⁓ one of my, ⁓ good friends, Gina, her son rider is about Brexton's age. ⁓ they've ran go-karts and micros all together. ⁓ so I've been kind of around in some of those races and, and, ⁓ go-kart races up in. Iowa and ⁓ Minnesota and stuff like that. Or they would come down here and to run the micros and, and, ⁓ you know, to, to, to watch just the one of the bad, you know, the biggest bad asses in the world come down and run the Tulsa shootout and get hammered in, you know, like, like the rest of us do, ⁓ you know, and just, just get his butt kicked. ⁓ but then learn from it was really cool. So, it gave me a lot of. Slim Pushins: He he was a completely different guy away from the the NASCAR track. Corby Scherb: Yeah. I yeah, you know, it it's hard, it's very humbling to like take yourself back down to just being your average guy whenever he stepped in a midget or a micro. He wasn't Kyle Bush that he's known at at NASCAR and it it's a very it's a very like Jimmy's saying, it's a very hard thing to do as a racer to say that I'm just another guy. Jim Gardner: Correct. A lot of those guys won't do it. Like a lot of the kids that, you know, are very successful grow up, grew up, ⁓ you know, running sprint cars and midgets, ⁓ who have now made it now aren't running sprint cars and midgets anymore because they don't, a, want to get hurt or be not run well, which is probably most likely the case. So, ⁓ Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Right. Slim Pushins: A lot of those guys you don't see running trucks. You know you're right. I never really thought about it, but putting themselves in a situation t yeah, they have everything to lose. Everybody expects them to win. Jim Gardner: No, they got too much to lose. You know, correct. Everybody expects them not to win, but to go dominate and win by half a lap. ⁓ you're, Kyle Busch. Why don't you win the chili bowl every year? You know, why are you, why are you in the G main at chili bowl running at 11 30 in the morning? ⁓ with a bunch of, yeah. Corby Scherb: For sure. For sure. Yeah. Yeah. Slim Pushins: He was such a good dude though, ⁓ outside ⁓ always signing autographs, taking pictures at at all the dirt tracks. ⁓ he was a Jim Gardner: Yeah, so I'm glad. Corby Scherb: Good, he was a great dad, man. Like you gotta give him respect too, you know. I know that they had they had, you know, never issues with their marriage. Like he was truly ⁓ a a great husband and a and a dad. simply just to give back to what he had with his kids, to how he carried himself with his kids. You know, there's a there's a video that goes around about ⁓ Braxton driving and Kyle was Kyle was ripping him apart. You know, telling him that like you can sit here and blame everything and everyone. This is you. Like you can go look at the data. It's telling you that you are off the gas. You know, and that and that's the same may maybe that helped with him going to drive in dirt to realize that, you know, I ain't just I can't just do everything. ⁓ but that's that's the most important part was, you know, what he left behind is not just a legacy of who he was on the racetrack, but who he was in the pit area too, like you're saying, Kerbo, ⁓ Jim Gardner: Yeah. you Yeah. Yeah Corby Scherb: Just he was a normal guy. He he was the same. He pulled his pants up the same as everyone else. He was just wicked fast in a car. Yeah, for sure. Slim Pushins: Just more expensive pants. Jim Gardner: Yeah. but yeah, that was it. Slim Pushins: Well, maybe not more expensive than gems. All gems comes from Costco. Corby Scherb: ⁓ Jim Gardner: Costco. Yeah, that's right. But, ⁓ yeah, a good reason, you know, he was, he's 41 years old. That's about how old Corby and I are. ⁓ we should probably make sure that we go to the doctor, you know, yeah. ⁓ you know, I had, ⁓ I had a little episode at chili bowl where I collapsed and spent a night in the hospital. ⁓ that ended up not being too big of a deal, but, ⁓ you know, it's just a good reminder, ⁓ to. Slim Pushins: Along with his shoes. Don't have sepsis. Jim Gardner: to take care of ourselves a little bit better for our family and our friends and hold each other a little bit more accountable, make sure we're doing everything that we need to. And maybe he was doing all that, but. ⁓ Slim Pushins: Toss. Toss Big Countries comment up there. That's the comment that that that's dead on. You know, a lot of that's a lot of what you see. Yeah, a lot of what you see live will change your opinion about people. At the end of the day, they're a dad, they're a husband. ⁓ and we as fans, ⁓ we we lose sight of that. Corby Scherb: That's that's the thing, man. He he was a true dad. ⁓ it's j you know, there's there's always gonna be Kyle haters out there that would never care to see any of that stuff, ⁓ because of he spun out whoever it might be in that moment who probably roughed up him first. That's to touch on what Jimmy said, I mean no one's promised tomorrow. ⁓ all we can do is do our best every single day to live healthy and try our best to eat the right things and I'll I'd y'all I'll get way off topic if we start talking about that stuff. Slim Pushins: This is real touchy, Jim. Jim Gardner: yeah so anyway Corby Scherb: But he was I mean, man, he was. He was an athlete first. ⁓ and like I said, he went out the the way that he would have. ⁓ he never took no for an answer. He kept fighting. I mean the dude chased apparently chased a sinus infection for like a month. ⁓ that that's heavy. Slim Pushins: Yeah. I I tell you there were two instances over the weekend that just really stopped me in my tracks. One of them was ⁓ in the garage where they didn't not one team unloaded one car ⁓ until until Kyle's car well now it's the thirty-three was unloaded and complete silence. Everybody paid respect ⁓ from the moment that the car was was pulled out. Corby Scherb: Mm. Slim Pushins: upstairs and lowered down to the ground and and pushed into the garage. And then the other one, ⁓ last night I was just, you know, ⁓ perusing through social media and seeing the video of of that number eight hauler leaving the track for the last time was really put a lot into perspective for me. Because and I didn't really think about it, but for all practical purposes that car that that hauler is gonna end up being rewrapped ⁓ with the new car number and stuff like that. So to see it leave the track, ⁓ Charlotte for the last time, like that was really just made me sit back and and just take it all in, just the magnitude. Corby Scherb: This is a whole different aspect of this show that we've never had, but it's the same as what they're doing with the number eight. I mean, they they yeah, they're all just deep stuff. it's usually just funny and making making fun of Jim and stuff like that, but ⁓ what they're gonna do with the number eight's super cool and it's the same. That's just the the proving point of what they've what kind of impact that he's left there for everyone. So he Slim Pushins: Feelings? We're losing we're losing tens of listeners by the second. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I really feel for this, 11 year old kids got, got an unbelievable big shadow that he's never going to get out of. Um, he's always going to end and, the day, the day after. Yeah. But I mean, the day after is the day after his dad died, you know, they're putting a post out, we're retiring this number until you're in the cup series. It's like, man, can we just let the kid be a kid? Um, a little bit. Corby Scherb: For sure. For sure. Slim Pushins: Well Junior Junior did a hell of a job. Junior's different though. Corby Scherb: For sure, you know, he you know, he's he's Jim Gardner: I get it's a nice gesture, that kid's, you know, being a new father, I'm just like, ⁓ God, man. Why, why, why put that kid through more scrutiny? But that kid was tough as nails with holding his mom up on Saturday, on Sunday night. And, ⁓ just hope for the best. That was just kind of a big shock to the motor sports world. ⁓ you know, reminder to go take care of yourself, have some vegetables and see the doctor. Corby Scherb: Hard pass on the vegetables. Don't even. Don't even. No. Eat some meat. Meat. ⁓ for sure water. Eat you some salt, get you a little honey down. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Slim Pushins: Have some vegetables, Corby. Jim Gardner: And, ⁓ you know, drink plenty of water and, ⁓ especially drink water even during chili bowl week and, yeah. Slim Pushins: I agree it should be the eighteen, but who am I? Jim Gardner: Yeah. But anyway, that's our accomplished recap. Slim Pushins: What's for dinner tonight, Corby? What kind of vegetables are you not gonna knock out tonight? Yeah. Corby Scherb: Kind of vegetables. ⁓ I'll have a little bit of hot sauce. That's got some vegetables in it. Slim Pushins: Is that a vegetable? Corby Scherb: I eat cheese, hamburger meat, steak, sausage, cheese. Slim Pushins: Where'd you get the steak from? Corby Scherb: From the store? Slim Pushins: No, you didn't. Where'd you get the steak from? Corby Scherb: You didn't get no steak, Jimmy? He gave me a whole box. Jim Gardner: Who gave you a box? Slim Pushins: Okay, Corby. All right. Corby Scherb: Kirby. Jim Gardner: Who put your water heater in for you, Slim? Who put the entire front end on your truck? Remember the death wobble? Corby Scherb: Yeah. Slim Pushins: Corby, there's some there's some things that we should just keep to ourselves. Tr trying to figure out the death wobble. Corby Scherb: Well he knows that I that I get the I get the sausage for Brooklyn. Brooklyn eats the sausage so she can have her sausage and rice. ⁓ but I I'm a I'm a little more beef person. Jim Gardner: man tough in the streets. I remember spending 72 straight hours working on Kerbo's truck in his driveway making six trips to Harbor Freight trying to cure the death wobble. And then right when I got done with that he goes hey by the way my water heater broke can we put one in? Corby Scherb: I can share some with you, Jim, if that helps. That doesn't help, I could share some. Slim Pushins: Yeah. You know, you know, this podcast was an absolute horrible idea. Jim Gardner: I guess. ⁓ All right. Let's get back to racing. Slim Pushins: Hey, there are some benefits with being the sausage slinger king of Chicago here. I offered Raimi some sausage earlier when we were we had a group text with me and Jimmy turned it down. He's like, I need good shit. You got any ribs? No, I don't have any damn ribs. Hey. Jim Gardner: Not that I would know. Yeah, he turned it down. He doesn't want that. Corby Scherb: This dude goes to cook offs though, come on. Jim Gardner: ⁓ so yeah, Remy, ⁓ with his win jumped up 42 places in the power rankings. ⁓ he is now solidly. I've I'm I'm down bad, man. Slim Pushins: Go ahead and bust that out. Let's talk about that bullshit. Corby Scherb: Where'd you where'd you end up after this weekend? Slim Pushins: How many are there? Did you say nine how many? Ninety drivers? Jim Gardner: There are 95 ranked drivers. Slim Pushins: Put up that put up that ⁓ graphic that you ⁓ posted in between liking Stanley all of Stanley's posts. Jim Gardner: And I am 68th right now. 68th. Yep. I am two spots better than Ryder LaPlante though. Slim Pushins: Sixty-eight? How are you that high? Corby Scherb: Hell yeah. How many races has he ran? Jim Gardner: One. ⁓ Slim Pushins: How's he gonna call the kid out? Corby Scherb: Did he get ballparked? Slim Pushins: Yeah, he got yeah, he got mole card. Corby Scherb: It was I will say this, Ryder, I love you, you know that, but that was I mean like the perfect steering wheel toss. Land on your side, you just Slim Pushins: Where's that picture? That picture's somewhere. It's on our group text, isn't it? Jim Gardner: Yeah, I don't think I can pull that up. Kevin's a big P1 of the show. I don't think we need to be rubbing it in there. Tour up race car. Corby Scherb: That's a great one. I woke up ⁓ I I woke up Slim Pushins: Yeah. Corby Scherb: I woke up Sunday morning Slim Pushins: Nobody's rubbing it in. That's we're giving him kudos. That was the best steering wheel toss since Justin Bates did it four years ago. Corby Scherb: Yeah. I I ⁓ woke up Sunday morning I watched the race and that's the only clip that you get is it pans over to Ryder and then you just see the steering wheel coming out, that's all it text was great steering wheel toss. Jim Gardner: You Yeah Slim Pushins: Just the steering w the steering wheel yeet? Did you find it, Jim? He quit looking. Jim Gardner: ⁓ man. No, I got it right here. ⁓ that's not really, ⁓ let's see if I can do this. What are you looking for now? ⁓ I don't have the steering wheel toss picture. No, I don't have the group text. Slim Pushins: Well, that's the first one that I asked for. We're getting there. Yeah, you do. Where it's on a Corby Scherb: Kerba, why don't you do it? Why don't you do it? Yeah. What did you do this weekend? Slim Pushins: What? Huh? I I don't understand why this has been turned around on me. Jim Gardner: He held down TikTok, I'm sure. Corby Scherb: I hope you're proud. I hope you're proud. Slim Pushins: Where's where's where's the DRA and the kid? All right, y'all talk about that. I'm gonna find this. Corby Scherb: Freaking stubborn. Jim Gardner: Yeah, Colby Stubblefield had another nice charge after getting his spot back on lap one, turn one. But then he made the most of it. So he remains at the top of the standings. He already finished seventh. ⁓ Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: DJ Estes, where did DJ run? DJ was 11th. DJ was 11th, his worst outing of the year. He's still in second. Rickets was not at Hunt County and I think he made a post today. He's not going to run again until Kennedale, which isn't until the middle or end of June. ⁓ Kyle Jones, we are pitted next to him. Corby Scherb: Of course. Slim Pushins: Jim, where do you want me to send this picture? Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: ⁓ and he just hauls ass. He's getting killed by the participation metric of only running three races, but I mean, an average finish of 2.7 and, ⁓ you know, he's averaging nearly six cars, ⁓ you know, if he could ever start up front, I'm sure he'd be dominating, which we said about Colby earlier this year, but, ⁓ Kyle and that 79 car rip, ⁓ my buddy Scott Bradley built the engine in that, ⁓ that 79 car and it sounds real good. ⁓ but ⁓ they had it figured out. ⁓ I talked to Kyle for a lot, ⁓ for a good while, mostly about midget setup, trying to get some tips and tricks on the midget side. Slim Pushins: Maybe hey, maybe it's just my opinion, but he Kyle Jones could have been a whole lot faster this weekend if Jason Tyre wasn't wasn't in his where he Jim Gardner: I'm working on it. Jason, go ahead. Go ahead. Corby Scherb: Jimmy, did he tell you that what's that? ⁓ I didn't I didn't know if Kyle just said just just find some talent. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. That's might be what I just need to do. But yeah, Jason tire was there working on that thing. And then he just disappeared. Like after the heat races, he just, didn't see him again. And I was over there dismounting tires with them. And, um, uh, what's the car owner's name? I can't think of it right now. Yeah. Ryan Hall separated his shoulder or broke his arm or something. It was one arm and things with Kyle. And I was, it felt bad. And I was like, here, just let me take this into your trailer. But, uh, Slim Pushins: Yeah. Corby Scherb: Ryan Hall. Slim Pushins: I'm gonna start using that excuse. Jim Gardner: Yeah, yeah, just coming to us. Yeah. Come to the racetrack in a sling, Kerbo. Corby Scherb: You don't even have to use an excuse, you're not gonna do it anyway. Slim Pushins: Jim, I just sent you that on ⁓ Messenger. Bring it up. What do you what do you want it on? Jim Gardner: I don't know if I can pull it up, but, and, and I'll figure it out. Kermit. I just relax. You're ruining my flow. Lance Christie, Lance Christie is putting on the miles on his hauler. ⁓ he's already run not all nine races and he's been basically in the top 10 and all of them. So he comes in and fifth. He also had a wind down in Houston a couple of weeks ago. Slim Pushins: No, you won't. Okay. Back to Jim Gardner: Landon Thompson's had more good runs Zimmerman we talked about was fast finished third Jeb is still up front and ⁓ Corby's new guy Braxton Weiger is top 10 still Slim Pushins: What are you laughing at, Corby? Jebba? Corby Scherb: Yeah. Jim Gardner: Jeb-ba-ba-ba-ba. I don't think- Slim Pushins: I don't know what y'all were sending messages back and forth about all day today. I'm assuming some sort of conspiracy theories. I haven't even looked it up. Jim Gardner: yeah. Jab was trying to ram a conspiracy theory down my throat and I wasn't having any other you've you've been on the other end of that deal. Corby or Kerbo. Corby Scherb: He's got facts. I was just eating popcorn listening. Slim Pushins: Jeb does have facts. Jim Gardner: ⁓ I debunked them in eight seconds. Corby Scherb: He doesn't debunk ⁓ he just swears that the math rules over everything else. Slim Pushins: Jim's afraid to put anything in writing that goes against the government. Jim Gardner: ⁓ my God. That's just not true. ⁓ two races, two races this week, ⁓ we'll count towards the power rankings, both Ardmore, ⁓ Saturday night and down South. are they racing? Not one ⁓ five, but cotton bowl. Corby Scherb: We didn't land on the moon. Slim Pushins: Braxton Weager. Cotton bowl. That's a cool place. We we go on a cotton bowl for me? Corby Scherb: Super cool place, man. ⁓ if you ⁓ if you wanna learn a slick tra if you want if you want a slick track set up, ⁓ go down there and race. 'Cause it I promise you it's gonna get slick. Slim Pushins: We gonna go to Cotton Bowl Courtby? Corby Scherb: I'll be in Ardmore. Slim Pushins: ⁓ they're racing the same night? I thought it was Friday and Saturday night. Jim Gardner: Yeah, they're both Saturday. Cotton bowl. Cotton bowl pays thousand to win. Corby Scherb: That's what he just said. If he was listening Slim Pushins: I don't listen to Jim. I I tune Jim out. All right, take that off the screen. Corby Scherb: You don't listen, we know. Ardmore's always cool, man, and I'll I'll say this openly. ⁓ I think that Ardmore is kinda underrated, man. There's a lot of fast Oklahoma guys that only race at Ardmore and ⁓ there's there's usually not a ton of North Texas guys that go up there. I know that me personally, Jimmy, you do, ⁓ Sam's Kerbo, I mean ⁓ it's an hour and fifteen minutes from my back door to that racetrack and the place is racy. Slim Pushins: Your back door, huh? Jim Gardner: It's awesome. it, ⁓ It's, it's, if it's on the bottom, it's real technical. Uh, but it's also been around a rim sometimes. And it's like, got to pull 15 points of gear out of it just cause you're going to be running so much longer around the top. It's got that big crown down there and turn three. I'm the Slim Pushins: Jim, you've ripped around that place before. Jim Gardner: ⁓ I hunted the bottom to the front. Whoa. ⁓ I had a good run there in the war. Hearst mobile. ⁓ Slim Pushins: You fall down? Corby Scherb: It's the only time you have ever just straight up beat me. That's it. It's the only time. Jim Gardner: Yeah, we, I had, I had Jared's car here and, and, ⁓ rebuilt it for him. And I was like, man, I should just go shake this down and Ardmore. And sure enough, didn't know where the shocks were. You know, they had some clicks in them and I just kind of went to them and, and. Through a real basic setup on it and, and was really good. Drew the pole, ⁓ redrew the pole and, and, and led led half of it or so until I let Gary Kelly go by me. ⁓ Corby Scherb: Come on, Kyle, I'll come h I'll help you. Come to Ardmore. Gary Owens. Jim Gardner: Gary Owens, excuse me. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Why don't you make fun of him when he gets something wrong? You just correct him like it's normal. Corby Scherb: I corrected him because I have respect for him. Jim Gardner: But, ⁓ yeah. And then I took my, take my own car there and I can't, I can't hit sand if I fell off a camel. I should, I should just throw very simple, you know, it's, I was talking to Justin, we struggled again last week and, ⁓ just trying a little too hard. Slim Pushins: Why don't you let somebody else set it up for you? Corby Scherb: I think it goes back to the same thing. I'm pretty sure that we had the best car ⁓ this last weekend. But keep going. Keep going with your story. Slim Pushins: I I'm gonna give it to Corby. They had the best hundred foot car. If it was a drag strip if it was a drag strip, Corby, you ⁓ you'd have had that trophy. Jim Gardner: Yeah, definitely did not have the best car. ⁓ Corby Scherb: I agree, Jesse. They they need to run more than that. Jim Gardner: I either either have I have not been able to put my finger on on these J.R. one cars to give us the feel we're looking for. doesn't matter whether I'm driving it or Justin Bates is driving it. The car is really, really good early and then we cannot dial the grip into her. ⁓ So we're going to kind of restart from scratch and go back to the basics here. And I think we're just trying a little too hard, you know, trying. You know, going 90 % is a lot better than going 110. Um, so I literally was on like the maximum setup page the other day, looking at some stuff. Like, I'm just going to throw this in there and, and see if I can get out of my own head a little bit. Cause it is, it is the struggle bus down in our pit right now. Um, we are not operating with a lot of confidence. So, uh, we're planning on going to Ardmore, um, Saturday, let her stretch her legs a little bit. Slim Pushins: We were pretty confident. Jim Gardner: Put about a 650 gear in there, 630 sometimes. Slim Pushins: Saw Jesse Kelly all weekend or all night that night, just sniper in pictures all over the place. Jim Gardner: No, Patrick, I did not have time to build a whole car. ⁓ Corby Scherb: You got Patrick fired up now. Jim Gardner: I do not have time to ⁓ put that whole car together this week. So I'm going to figure out that JR1 come hell or high water, but I guarantee if we don't go good again Saturday, you'll be seeing Justin in a Maxim in about two weeks. So. Corby Scherb: I agree with Jesse though. I I wish they'd run more races there. It's usually different. ⁓ it'll be around all the way around the top to sometimes you can run a diamond line to there's plenty of nights that you can make it work around the bottom. Ardmore's just a cool place. ⁓ it's fast. It hurts. It hurts real bad when you mess up there. Slim Pushins: Who'd we see? ⁓ one of the Esseces got tore up pretty good, or Rutherford got tore up pretty good out there. Corby Scherb: I've seen I've seen Dj I've seen DJ go for a big ride. I've seen Vetter go for a big ride. ⁓ I've seen a couple people ⁓ I've seen a couple of people ⁓ top the hill there coming off turn two. you're you're you're going a lot quicker there. ⁓ but like Jimmy said, it it really is wide and you kinda have to anticipate if you're gonna run the top or the bottom. you can you can gear bind yourself really quickly there. ⁓ I don't know, it's just a cool place. I've always liked I Jim Gardner: I've seen you go for a big ride. Slim Pushins: Ha ha. Jim Gardner: Yep. Corby Scherb: I never was like crazy fast there, but always seemed to be good enough. Slim Pushins: I was I was standing I was standing right there at the where at the top of four right there by track entry and Chip Graham got it got it turned around and backed into the wall about three or four feet from me and I yelled if he was alright and he politely told me where I could shove it. Yeah. I told him he couldn't I told him he couldn't park there. Jim Gardner: Ugh. Corby Scherb: Yeah I Jim Gardner: We, ⁓ Jeb and I went there for a High Limit show a couple of years ago, like the first year of High Limit. Corby Scherb: Ryder has his coolest racing picture from from that show. Keep going. Jim Gardner: It was a Slim Pushins: That's your coolest racing picture. He that kid's accomplished a lot more than you have. Corby Scherb: No, that's Ryder's Ry absolute absolute wills up, middle of three and four. Jim Gardner: Yeah. ⁓ yeah, it, it put on some great four 10 racing. ⁓ they didn't, they, think they got murdered at the ticket gate that night. ⁓ cause there were not a lot of people there, but, ⁓ it's soup and maybe that tracks just kind of with the exposed light poles and some other stuff going on, ⁓ down there in turn three, ⁓ maybe the, it's a little too fast for the four 10 guys, but, It's big and wide and racy. can be real creative with your lines. ⁓ and, I really enjoy it. So, you know, good big pit area. ⁓ I have not tried their corn dogs. I don't know if they're any good or not. ⁓ so we'll see. I'm excited. ⁓ yeah, I hope the rain stays away. Slim Pushins: Ha ha ha. Corby Scherb: Well, Kerbo, there's your one job this weekend. Slim Pushins: Yeah, getting Mr Unapproachable to do a corndog review. Jim Gardner: We'll see. Corby Scherb: Aunt Sam to talk about we'll we'll talk about that later, but keep going, Jimmy. Jim Gardner: Well, I'm not racing. Slim Pushins: We're still trying to talk we're still trying to talk Jim into a ⁓ some sort of a Mr. Unapproachable PTC T shirt. He's not about it. But he didn't like to wear his Corby shirts either. Jim Gardner: Nah. Yeah. But, ⁓ Corby Scherb: What what's the most common thing you hear at the racetrack now, Kerbo? Slim Pushins: Deber. Where's Corby? And I'm over it. I'm a person, I have feelings too. Jim Gardner: Yeah. ⁓ Slim Pushins: Debrick Corby tried to exit the track right ⁓ coming out of two one night, head straight he tried to go straight to the trailer over the over the wall. Corby Scherb: I got a little help. I got a little bit of help that night. Slim Pushins: How'd that work out for you? Got you a date. Corby Scherb: Not good. It did. It I mean it worked out in the end, but it it hurt. That one hurt. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Corby Scherb: I just remember telling Jimmy I heard Jimmy's voice and saying like you always listen for those familiar voices and Jimmy goes, You all right buddy? And I said, Get me out of this car now. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: Yeah, it's never, ⁓ it's never fun. ⁓ it's never fun when you got to help lift a guy out of a car. ⁓ and just hope his back's not blown out, but, ⁓ yeah. Well, like when I crashed your dad's car at devil's bowl and by the time you, you know, you crash big when you open your eyes and you go, wow, that sucked. And there's like six people in the cockpit with you. That's how you know, you crashed big. ⁓ and that. Corby Scherb: Exactly. Those are the good ones. Jim Gardner: That night at Ardmore it was just me out there because it was in such a remote spot. ⁓ But yeah, that was not fun. That was not fun at all. Slim Pushins: I had to I had wheel over there from the other side of the track. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I was. Corby Scherb: Amy Laplant beat you over there. Amy was down there giving me water. I just told him to get me out and lay me down. Give me a second. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. I was, uh, I was standing on one of those containers on the back stretch and just hopped the fence and jumped down, but blew out both my knees and, uh, sprinted up the hill to go get them. And then like, but, but the worst part was like, we got them out and then like the, you're worried about the car sliding down the hill, you know, like finally the medics got there and I was like, okay, I'm going to, I, I'm going to make sure this car doesn't. Corby Scherb: It was a weird crash. Yeah. Slim Pushins: I was worried about my big ass sliding down the hill. Jim Gardner: wipe out six people here while Corby's laying on the ground. Corby Scherb: It g I mean honestly i it c it could flip itself just sitting on that hill, it's so steep. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. Well, was, yeah, it was, it was on its wheels, but the suspension was blown out, but like it was on the wheels and the shocks enough that it was sliding down. was like, Holy shit, this is going to be bad days. Yeah. It was. was, and not to mention I was pissed, you know, cause got absolutely wadded up for third. Yeah. Corby Scherb: Mm. Slim Pushins: Well. Corby Scherb: Didn't know that part. Slim Pushins: Imagine that. Corby Scherb: He was super apologetic and and Slim Pushins: That was that was one of Jim's that was one of Jim's f wife's first races. And I remember ⁓ she asked me Kerbo is is it always like this? What do you mean what which part? You mean like Corby in the back of an ambulance trying to get a date? Well, part of it is always like this, yeah. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Jim Gardner: Ha ha. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm glad. I'm glad she was there that night because I was probably trying, trying, trying to be on my best behavior and not really lose my cool. Corby Scherb: No, I just remember I I remember ⁓ I rem one slider was thrown at me and I was able to drive back around it and I was like, I don't think he'll s throw another one at me ⁓ the next lap. Went in there and did the same thing 'cause it was kinda weird that night. It was a little bit curbed up and it was really one lane. ⁓ it was tough racing once we got spread out and then next thing I know I just I'm I had zero time to say this is gonna f gonna hurt. And he y he came in and he missed the slider and turned me straight into the wall and I don't even know if I had time to get on the bricks. before I just absolute impact on the wall. And then ⁓ it did some kinda like I don't know, like goofy three sixty spin with a barrel roll in it and I landed back down on all four wheels and it hurt. Jim Gardner: I don't think so, is you. The wing flew off. like the, the, the pins and the wing came off. The whole wing was like back. ⁓ the slider came out and it came out of the front post or it ripped the front post out. So the whole wing was exposed. Thank God. Cause that was the only way I could get you out of the car. ⁓ yeah, that car was tore up. So. Corby Scherb: It hurt. It hurt. We had a big crease right at ⁓ motor plate. Thankfully it wasn't, you know, just a couple inches farther back so I would have truly taken it with the full z that that goes back to the safety stuff that we wear with ⁓ ended up breaking a rib and ⁓ just just where my strap for my hybrid goes around my chest. ⁓ everything that you slow down you're also creating another impact point and ⁓ I I would imagine that that's what did it. But ⁓ yeah, that that one that one hurt. Jim Gardner: Yeah. That was. Corby Scherb: That one hurt. And ⁓ Wesley McNorton and Jimmy were great that week. Kerba wasn't anything other than a beer holder and ⁓ we rebuilt a car in five days. ⁓ no, that would we went to Wake or Abeley in the next next weekend and in the same Kerbo just stood there and held bolts while Matt Yates, c ⁓ Wesley and Randy and me changed out a rear end 'cause ⁓ it spit a rear end in the heat race. Jim Gardner: You Slim Pushins: For nationals. Jim Gardner: night art Yes. Corby Scherb: Got that changed and then made it to Waco and went home and got to rest for a couple of days. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I wasn't there for that. Slim Pushins: I do a lot more than y'all think I do. I just can't put my finger on it right now. Jim Gardner: Your leadership vibes, artificial lighting, director of nutrition at Chili Bowl, bolt bin holder. ⁓ You've gotten better at manning the cooler. Corby Scherb: Bolt Ben Holder guy. Slim Pushins: Yes. See? Everything that I do just stacks up. Corby Scherb: It did get better at a at the whole cooler situation, other than a couple of weeks back when I asked for a water. A couple weeks that was bad. That was bad. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I had to teach you some cooler etiquette. Yeah, after I taught you some cooler etiquette, you've been even better. Yeah. Slim Pushins: We had no waters. A lot of beer. Zero water. I feel like our priorities are a little askew. Corby Scherb: Yeah, man, Ardmore's super cool and I I really think that it's underrated for I d I don't know if people around here it truly is quarter miles everywhere we race around here and Ardmore's not that. I don't know if it's just that. Like I said, we've seen some some really big rides there. I like the place. I've always liked the place. Jim Gardner: I, it would just have to always remind them every year that we go up there, that we can't run six lap heat races and 15 lap features. Like, Hey, we're going five seconds faster than your normal classes. You got to, you got to, yeah. But they, yeah, they just forget. Yeah. Yeah. So, ⁓ Corby Scherb: Right. Slim Pushins: That's true, but they're always receptive. Like there's no fight. You just go, Hey, we we need more than six laps. They go, ⁓ okay. Corby Scherb: ⁓ I got a I got another funny story. Are can we are we allowed to tell stories right now about that place that I didn't even like put into perspective until later on once we raced red cars there? We went there and raced motorcycles once. Yep. And there was a there was a dash for cash that night. Four laps. It was me, Merle, Lucas, and a kid named Colt Schiboltz from Kansas. Merle got the whole shot and ⁓ Shiboltz. Jim Gardner: This is your show. Slim Pushins: There it is. All right. It's been a good show. Thanks for tuning in. Jim Gardner: Hahaha! Slim Pushins: Colt, hold one second. Colt Schiboltz. Corby Scherb: Colt Schiboltz. Yeah. Forty seven G buddy. He ripped. He ripped at Waco. Colt Schiboltz. Slim Pushins: Cole Sabolt. Jim Gardner: hang on how do you spell that colt shabazz shibble shi- is he dead Corby Scherb: C H E Z Chaboltz. I'll find him. Hold on. I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna butcher his name. Slim Pushins: I'm still waiting on the steering wheel throw, Jim. Jim, Jim, nobody plays my ADD against myself better than Jim does. Jim Gardner: Well, it's a bad. Corby Scherb: C H E B U L T Z Schmults. Slim Pushins: It is a bad picture, but it's all we've got. Jim Gardner: C-H-E-B. Not in a Corby Scherb: U L T Z Colton Chaboltz, Colt Chaboltz. From Manhattan, Kansas. Slim Pushins: Holt Schabolts. Hey, the sky pilot, the Skypilot said I'm one of the best bump starters there is, and I have to agree with him. Jim Gardner: I'll be damned, that is his real name. Slim Pushins: Hold Shabolt. Corby Scherb: I you. I told you, man. And ⁓ Merle got the whole shot and was leading it, and ⁓ we got the white flag and it paid $500 to win the dash for cash, and I went to turn three and I knocked Merle on his ass. And dad was sitting next to the girlfriends at the time, and he goes, ooh, it's gonna be bad in the pit area. And ⁓ Jim Gardner: you Slim Pushins: Jim, I thought d I thought you made that other drop. The other drop for the only reason that we do this podcast. Jim Gardner: ⁓ yeah. I didn't upload it though. Give me a second here. Slim Pushins: Cheese. Corby Scherb: Colt actually won the main event that night. I got a bad start. I got I got a bad start, yeah. Colt ended up winning. He was good, he was a ripper man. Him ⁓ Michael Toon were two dudes from Kansas that would show up to our local races and absolutely wax us on the half miles. Slim Pushins: Culture both? Jim Gardner: ⁓ Slim Pushins: Damn, we're missing the boat. We need a Colt Schiboltz t shirt and I've got some great Corby Scherb: I'll I'll message him right now if y'all wanted to jump on here. Dude, man, he ⁓ he the Slim Pushins: There it is. Jim Gardner: Hahaha! Corby Scherb: He ⁓ he got taken out at Peoria one year and ⁓ Merle walked up to him to ask if he was all right and he was laughing hysterically and he picked up his arm and it was in a Z Slim Pushins: Wow. Colt Schabolt. Corby Scherb: A little bit of shock. Yep. Jim Gardner: Ugh. Corby Scherb: Man, y'all even heard the good race of names like Mr. Dirt go Corky Keener. He was a stud from Michigan, man. ⁓ Corkster. Corky Keener. I swear, his nickname was Mr. Dirt. His real name was Corky Keener. Corky Keener. Real name. ⁓ yeah. Jim Gardner: you Are these real names or nicknames? Slim Pushins: Corky Keener. Jim Gardner: That's on his birth certificate? God. Corby Scherb: What else do we got? You want me to keep going down cool names? I mean Sete Gibinau Sete Gibinau was my favorite motorcycle racing name. I think it was from Spain or Sete Gibinau. Slim Pushins: Let's let's Jim Gardner: No. Slim Pushins: Sette. Jim Gardner: Well that just sounds... Corby Scherb: Come on man, everyone knows ⁓ everyone knows Corky Keener, national number sixty two from Michigan. Come on, Flint, Michigan. Jim Gardner: Nobody knows that. Slim Pushins: I mean honestly, I didn't think it ever got any better than Dick Trickle. Corby Scherb: Dig trickle is a good one. Bubba Shoulbert. Slim Pushins: This is Jib's Disney World. Jim Gardner: I forgot I had drops. We're breaking out all the... Corby Scherb: There I we had Lucas and Logan grew up with w we're we'll go with everything. Lucas and Logan grew up with a kid the same age as them. His his name was Brock Schwarzenbacher. His his last name was so long he just put Bacher on the back of his leathers. Jim Gardner: So I don't know. I don't know if this is going to show up. No, I'm looking at this. I don't think it's going to. I don't think you're going to be able to see. Yeah, there's a steering wheel. Yeah, it's Kerbo sent me a screenshot instead of the actual photo. It's the wrong proportion. Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. Slim Pushins: He's still looking for drops. Is the kid still on? There it is. There it is. Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah, you got it. You can kinda get the steering wheel there in the top right. Slim Pushins: I mean Corby Scherb: Of course he did, 'cause he doesn't know what he's doing. Slim Pushins: That's all I had. Just the the logistics of getting that of getting the steering wheel to where it is from based on where it started. It's impressive. I don't even know if the kid's still on. Jim Gardner: Nah, we ran off. Corby Scherb: I mean come on, dude, we could talk about it. Devin's on right now. ⁓ Frederick. ⁓ Willard there. His grandpa ripped on a motorcycle. ⁓ Freddie Diebrick. Slim Pushins: Freddie D. Jim Gardner: Debra Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah, ⁓ Frederick. Slim Pushins: Freddie DeBrick. Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. Long legged. Big tall skinny guy long legged. Jim Gardner: Uhhh... Slim Pushins: I thought it was I thought it was KSP's announcer was the only one. Corby Scherb: See and though like y'all y'all think this is funny because Freddie rode for Stubbafield. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Corby Scherb: Yeah. ⁓ now now you're all of a sudden in tune. For Glenn Stubberfield. Junior. Th there's a reason that his name is Junior. Jim Gardner: Well, yeah, and I was talking about Sprinkler racing. Slim Pushins: Yeah, 'cause now you're bringing it back to something interesting. 'Cause there was another one? Corby Scherb: That old man racing to his sixty C. Devin knows and he rode for Stubbafield, man. Old Glenn Stubbafield. Old Stubby. Slim Pushins: Yeah. That old man raced into his sixties. Corby Scherb: Same Danny Eslick rode for Stubblefield for quite a while. Danny and his brother AJ did. Slim Pushins: We need to have ASLIC on. Corby Scherb: We don't need that. We don't need that. The world ain't ready for that. We could tell stories about when me and him were amateurs. Jim Gardner: Mmm. Hmm Slim Pushins: We need to have Eslick and Jason Tyre on at the same time. Corby Scherb: We need to have Jason Tower on. Jason remembers some good times. Jim Gardner: Man. All right. Is that about it? What else we got? Slim Pushins: Hunter said I got off my bike and hopped on the back of Corby's mid turn in a heat race. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Slim Pushins: Corby, you parked it on a guy coming in hot? Corby Scherb: ⁓ no, man, I I like I said, I knocked Merle off and it w it was a long, long van ride back home after that for the Dash for Cash win. Slim Pushins: Longer than the Abilene ride? Corby Scherb: I don't know, I was in I I was happy. Merle was mad, not me. I was mad after Abilene. Slim Pushins: Debrick's D Brick's two wheel debut got derailed because the old man broke broke some ribs. Jim Gardner: for the yeah it's for the best we don't need every sherb can't lift their arms above their head without pinching a necessary blood vein ⁓ or artery or whatever so yeah yeah so Corby Scherb: We were fine, you just needed to walk it off. I just need leave me alone, let me catch my breath, I'll be fine. Slim Pushins: North forty. Corby Scherb: ⁓ Hunter. Hunter's talking North Forty Sherman, man. Slim Pushins: All right, so Corby Scherb: Hunter was an absolute, absolute ripper when it came to short tracks. Slim Pushins: All right, so this weekend, nobody's going to none of us, nobody's going to Cottonville, which is a shame. That's a awesome place. Corby Scherb: It is a super cool facility. I mean, middle of nowhere, Texas. V beautiful, beautiful place. Jim Gardner: What's the toe down there? Slim Pushins: Two forty five. Corby Scherb: Page. Jim Gardner: from the cater. Slim Pushins: Like I don't think it was a full three hours, was it, Corby? Didn't seem like it. Well, it's a lot longer for Dana Wilson and Mike on their way home. They went the opposite. Corby Scherb: Thought so. I don't know, I don't remember. Jim Gardner: Wait. Corby Scherb: No, we pulled in there, what was it? What was it? A shock had ⁓ a shock was hanging off of Bolden's truck or something like that. Right? 'Cause we followed them down there. Where'd we come from? Did was that a doubleheader weekend? Was it Waco and then Cotton Bowl? I think it was. Well we wouldn't have we wouldn't have met them. I think it was I think it was a doubleheader weekend. Slim Pushins: Ya y ⁓ yeah, it was a Mm, I don't think so. No, I think no, I think it was no, I don't think so. It could have been, but I don't think so. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Probably. Yeah, cotton bowls a cool 280 miles from my house. Four and a half hours. I don't believe I'm ever going to go. Slim Pushins: It's a cool place, Jim. You need to go. Corby Scherb: Super cool place. Beautiful, beautiful facility. Jim Gardner: I'm sure it's cool, though when the outlaws ran there, it was put on really good shows. Corby Scherb: Yep. Slim Pushins: Yeah, Dana and Dana and Mike went the opposite direction when we all left. They ended up in Georgetown. Took ⁓ like six hours to get home. Jim Gardner: hahahaha ⁓ Slim Pushins: Mike refused to use GPS. He said he knew how to get home. Jim Gardner: Rightfully so. get that. Corby Scherb: Chad Wilson told me that night, if you don't take the your wing off and put it on this car, then load your shit up and just leave. Yes sir. No problem. We took my wing off and put it on the other car. Carson Bolton was over there helping change tires. Ch the Wilson Corey Landon was over there. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: So so what did we do? We took the wing off. Jim Gardner: I haven't heard from Chad in a while. hasn't been out racing much. know his daughter graduated last week. Slim Pushins: He called me on the way home. Corby Scherb: Yeah, he's got a lot of stuff going on with his kids, man. his daughters are getting older now and yup. Yep. Slim Pushins: Being a dad. I like it. I like seeing that. There are bigger things than racing. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: Well, the dude's won the world a couple of times in sprint cars. Jim Gardner: I heard that. I heard that. Slim Pushins: We're gonna get him back in the car though. Jim Gardner: I mean, I don't think you have to try that hard, Kerbo. Slim Pushins: ⁓ so Well, I don't know. He's enjoying they were at the lake this weekend. So everybody's gonna be at Ardmore. We're gonna make another gentleman's agreement. Jim Gardner: can, we could settle it at the Windstar Casino on the way home. Slim Pushins: Corby gets all wigged out when he's out of Wise County for a certain amount time. There you go. Corby Scherb: I have my daughter. We're coming home. Jim Gardner: ⁓ well, I mean, I'm riding up there with Bates, so I guarantee we stop at the casino on the way home. Corby Scherb: See, next question. Slim Pushins: He'll give up racing that night for the casino. Corby Scherb: I'm going up there solo this weekend. I'm kind of excited just to have a solo drive up there, you know, listen to some good music. ⁓ I'm not? Jim Gardner: Don't. Yeah. Slim Pushins: You're not gonna be solo. I'm going with you. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: ⁓ we're gonna listen to good music. Sh is it time? Sh should I start sending ⁓ Fraxon? Yeah, should I start sending him some some songs? Slim Pushins: You don't know good music. Uyghur. Jim Gardner: ⁓ You're going to. Slim Pushins: I mean if you want that relationship to end immediately, start sending in your music. Jim Gardner: Going up to Oklahoma. So there's only one song to play. Slim Pushins: There's only one song. I think that Corby Scherb: No, it is not. You're not even close you're not even close to that stupid town. Slim Pushins: That's it's just as big of a state song. I said that I sent a video with Tulsa Time playing in the background. Rider the Kid of the Plant was singing along and not one of you sons of bitches even commented on it. Jim Gardner: About halfway there in your house. Corby Scherb: I was busy using the truck door for other reasons. Meat grinder, you know, stuff like that. Slim Pushins: Y'all just try to make me feel stupid. Jim Gardner: I had my own mess of problems, Kerbo. Slim Pushins: I I'm hoping I'm hoping that the ASCS race gets rained out. Corby Scherb: All right, so Jim, you're going up there with the basic standard this weekend, right? Jim Gardner: Yep. Yep. I think I found some stuff. I at least feel halfway good about just going a different direction because we're, we're down bad right now. We can't, we can't get, ⁓ get out of our own way. So, Slim Pushins: Soul sister. Corby Scherb: That's a great one. Slim Pushins: It was pretty sad and honestly it was pretty sad that the winner of our it was pretty sad that the the winner of our bet only won because we finished eleven laps in the feature. Corby Scherb: Just let me know if I need to bring my fire suit. Just let me know. Jim Gardner: 18th and ended up upside down on the fence, the steering wheel 30 feet away. Corby Scherb: By default. Tore his car up bad too. I hate that for him, man. Man, he's just had some absolute excuse my language, absolute shit luck. You know what I mean? But most of ⁓ haven't been, you know, his fault. Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: iPad. Slim Pushins: That was through no fault of his own. He was on rails. He was on a he was fun to watch. He was absolutely ripping. He was the only one on the top all the way around. He felt good. The car looked good. Car felt good. And ⁓ just some uns ⁓ just circumstances, unfortunate circumstances. Jim Gardner: Yeah, they had the great Bobby, excuse me, Bobby Kraft on the wrenches. Corby Scherb: Yep, for sure. Slim Pushins: Legendary Bobby Kraft. He's a good dude. I got to know him the other night. Jim Gardner: was a dude. Corby Scherb: They parked Kevin Laplan. I can't believe they did that. That's impressive. Slim Pushins: I think it's a partnership. All right. An hour and twenty one minutes. Yeah, okay, Cormy. Well, thanks for ⁓ we appreciate y'all joining us for a whole other episode of Garage Beers. Sorry that Jim figured out his headset and ⁓ actually got words in, but we appreciate it everybody. Thanks for joining us every week. We really appreciate the feedback that y'all are giving us at the track too. It's always fun ⁓ when y'all come and talk to us. Corby Scherb: It's dinner time. It's past dinner time. Jim Gardner: Yeah, appreciate you boys. We'll see you Saturday. Corby Scherb: I'd typically run a fifteen, Patrick. Slim Pushins: There you go. Corby back in the saddle. All right. Thanks everybody. Later. Jim Gardner: I, uh, yeah. See you guys.